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Lost in Translation(2003)
Released
2003 · FILM

Lost in Translation

A fading movie star and a young, unfulfilled wife, both stranded in Tokyo by circumstance, find unexpected connection and fleeting clarity in each other as they navigate loneliness and cultural dislocation.

“Everyone wants to be found.”

Directed by
Sofia Coppola, Shu Fujimoto
Written by
Sofia Coppola
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
102 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo—the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial—find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 196+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sarah FlackShot by Lance AcordScored by Kevin ShieldsDesigned by K K BarrettSound by Richard BeggsCostumes by Nancy SteinerStunts by Hirofumi Nakase

Box Office

2003 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 30× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$119.7M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$119.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $44.6M — 37% of worldwide · International: $75.1M (63%)

Opening weekend: $925K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.3M — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 23 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Lost in Translation - Zwischen den Weltende
  • Lost in translation: L'amore tradottoit
  • (English)Lost in Translation
  • (Bulgarian)Изгубени в превода
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesAug 29, 2003
  • ItalyAug 31, 2003
  • CanadaSep 5, 2003

Companies

ProductionFocus Features, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC), American Zoetrope

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